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Madison County blotter

published Thursday, March 27, 2014

The Madison County Sheriff’s Office reported the following incidents:

METH SEIZED: On March 17, Investigator Scott Pulliam and two other deputies went to a home on Buffington Road to serve a probation warrant on Scott F. Strickland. When no one answered the door, entered the unlocked house and called for Strickland.

No one responded, but officers found Strickland laying on a bedroom floor with one hand under his bed. He was ordered to remove his hand, but he said he didn’t have anything. He finally pulled his hand out and stood up and was handcuffed. Pulliam looked under the bed and found a pill bottle containing a crystal substance that tested positive for methamphetamine.

Strickland, 40, was charged with possession of methamphetamine.

OBSTRUCTION: On March 17, Investigator Scott Pulliam, along with two other deputies and a parole officer, went to Billy Dillard Road to serve a parole warrant on a man. When they arrived, they met with Jessica S. Hattaway, who said the suspect was not there and she had not seen him in several days.

She allowed the officers inside to look for the man. One officer removed the vent return cover for an air conditioning unit and found the suspect hiding inside the vent. The man was placed under arrest.

Hattaway was arrested on a charge of obstructing and hindering the apprehension of a criminal. At the jail, deputies searched Hattaway and found cocaine, along with eight oxycodone and acetaminophen pills. She was charged with possession of the drugs and taking them across a guard line.

ATV RECOVERED: On March 17, Deputy Larry MacKay was dispatched to Five Points Road, where a man saw someone riding his cousin’s stolen Yamaha ATV. The man began following the ATV and the man riding it jumped off and ran into the woods.

The man said he started to chase the man and after jumping out of his pickup, he left the door open and a passing vehicle hit the door. The ATV was returned to the owner and the wreck was turned over to the Georgia State Patrol. The man riding the ATV escaped.

METH SEIZED: On March 18, Investigator Scott Pulliam along with two other officers went to Martin Griffeth Road to conduct a search on the home of Rodney W. Baker, who was on probation. When Baker’s bedroom was searched, a pill bottle with methamphetamine was found along with a used needle and syringe.

Baker, 51, was charged with possession of the drug and taken to jail.

COPPER STOLEN: On March 18, Deputy Tracy Rucker met with a man who said someone stole copper wire from an air conditioner at a house on New Town Church Road. The person also went under the house and removed copper tubing that ran from the unit.

ROBBERY: On March 19, Deputy David Kidd was dispatched to Neese Mobile Home Park regarding a stolen firearm. He met with a man who said he was visiting at a house on Buddy Moore Road and he and others began discussing firearms.

He told the group he had a concealed-carry weapon permit and had his gun with him. He said Jennifer Shae Guest asked to see the gun, so he removed the magazine from the weapon and let her hold it.

The woman took the gun and walked out of the room, so he went in and saw her leaving quickly. The man wanted his pistol back and another man in the house said it was on the TV. He looked and realized he had been tricked. He went outside and saw Guest leaving in a car.

The man reported the theft to the deputy, who drove to the house on Buddy Moore Road, but no one was there. However, as he was leaving a car pulled into the driveway and he observed two people run inside the house and slam the door. The deputy went to the house and a woman came outside, then shortly afterward Guest walked onto the porch.

The deputy read Guest her rights and she agreed to speak. She told the deputy several stories, contradicted herself several times, then admitted she knew where the gun was.

Guest led officers to a trailer on Stone Ridge Drive, where she said she gave it to a man, then changed her story and said she gave it to a woman. Guest, 20, of Hull was charged with robbery and possession of a gun by a convicted felon. The gun has not been recovered.

NUDE PHOTOS: On March 19, Lt. Mark Jerome went to the Madison County High School Freshman Academy, where a female student had borrowed a cellphone from a male student. She pulled up the student’s pictures and began to share nude photos of the male student with two other female students. She will be charged with electronically furnishing obscene materials to minors.

PEDESTRIAN ARRESTED: On March 19, Lt. Jason Ring was dispatched to check on a suspicious person seen walking in the area of Georgia Highway 191 and Fowler Freeman Road. Ring located Alan Adolph Bischoff walking down the shoulder of the highway, but he appeared to be having trouble keeping his balance.

Bishchoff, who had glassy eyes, was unable to say where he had been, but he mentioned something about being out of gas. An ambulance was summoned to check Bischoff, due to his condition, but he checked out fine. Bischoff, 39, of Royston was taken to jail on a charge of being a pedestrian under the influence.

OBSTRUCTION: On March 19, Lt. Jason Ring was dispatched to the Neese Grocery store on Georgia Highway 106, where a woman was dragged out of the store by a man. The officer arrived and the pair was gone, but a man in the store said the man picked the woman up, put her on the counter and yelled, “Give me my phone and get your stuff out of my house.”

Then he dragged the woman out of the store by her hair as the woman pleaded with him to stop.

The woman’s brother brought her back to the store, where she explained that she and Joseph Roberts were fussing and when she tried to call 911, he grabbed her and pushed her into the counter, then dragged her outside.

Deputies went to a home on Martin Griffith Road, where Roberts, 32, of Hull was charged with battery, obstruction and kidnapping.

ASSAULT SUSPECT: On March 20, Cpl. Jason Luke was dispatched to a home on Hudson River Church Road, where Christopher Mitchell was reported to have assaulted his uncle, then run into the woods. Investigator Scott Pulliam arrived and he and two deputies looked in the woods for Mitchell, but could not find him.

The assault occurred after the uncle confronted Mitchell about some missing prescription medications. The uncle said he was punched in the head, leaving him with a knot on his forehead and a bleeding nose.

Mitchell, 23, of Danielsville, was located later in the day and charged with burglary, theft, battery and three counts of possessing controlled substances.

BURGLARY: On March 20, Deputy Kyle Roberts was dispatched to a home on Foote McClellan Road, where a man said he came home from work and found his door standing open. The man could not find anything missing.

HARASSMENT: On March 20, Deputy Bradley Free was dispatched to a home where a woman said her mother-in-law is making harassing telephone calls regarding the grandchildren. She said the woman becomes irate and starts cussing when she calls.

PEDESTRIAN ARRESTED: On March 21, Deputy Josh Smith was dispatched to McCannon Morris Road, where a man was seen lying in the fetal position on the roadside. The deputy arrived and asked Horace L. Johnson if he needed anything and Johnson said he needed protection. He smelled of alcohol and although he couldn’t say how much he drank, he said he had been drinking beer.

Johnson, 65, of Hull was charged with being a pedestrian under the influence.

DAMAGE: On March 22, Deputy Tracy Rucker was dispatched to the Colbert Lions Club on First Avenue, where someone vandalized the windows, causing $200 in damage.

CHAINS STOLEN: On March 23, Sgt. Jeff Strickland met with a man in the 2000 block of Georgia Highway 98 East, who said someone entered a barn and stole two 50-foot long logging chains.

BURGLARY: On March 23, Deputy Larry MacKay was dispatched to Peachtree Street, Colbert, where a man said someone entered his home and stole a box of 70 DVDs, a DVD player and a survival knife. A neighbor reported seeing a black and gray truck parked in the driveway earlier that day.

THREAT: On March 23, Deputy Chad Parr met with a Hull woman, who reported someone called her several times threatening to kill her. While the deputy was on hand, the man called back, identifying himself as “Daniel.”

The woman said that more than a year ago, she had dated a man named Daniel, but he was sent to prison in South Carolina. She said she recognized the voice on the phone as the man she had dated. She was advised to call 911 if the man showed up at her home.